The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
ing, with Description of Their Clothes
and How They Dress Their Hair.
Coarse Language at the Theater and in
the Seclusion of the Family Circle.
How Outdoor Photographers Work up Busi-
ness-A Close Study of Femininity in
the Grand Stand of a Race Course.
specis, to the Indianapolis sourns,.

| NEW YORK, July 9-The greatest alarm
spr aad over the inhabitants Of q great house
| up town. Little Tommy Jumpup had found a
| box of his mothers arsenical lozenges that she
| took carefully three day for her complexion
| and be had eaten all at sitting. Servants
| flew tor doctors. and docrors few for the fat.
| Every known remedy for arsenic poisoning WAS
administered. One physician ratified off in his
coupe to the maker of the beautifying pills. In
hasty accents he related the case and begged to
know what proportion of arsenic infested box
| of his waters.
"Be under no ALARM said the doctor; take
| the stomach pump of little Johnny. There
| isn't particle of arsenic in barrel of 'em.
They contain something that promotes diges-
tion and stirs the torpid liver. Johnny's liver
may be- abnormally active for few days. and
| he eat paper of tacks with as much conf
| dence if he were ostrich, but no further
| effects will be felt from my matchless wafers."
'.Tnere is no arsenic in arsenical lozenges
then?"
''Not grain but women do banker to take
/ som ething with arsenic in. The name is
great success, and my pills are saving lots of
| ladies from the damaging effects of arsenical
solution and other preparations of that fatal
/ drug"
| The report of the doctor at the Aldobella
/ Flats relieved our fond mothers heart, bnt
80 many ladies are disgusted that they have
| been taking rhubarb and looking daily in their
anxious faces for the work of arsenic.
| Notwithstanding the absence of our very fash
| ionabe girls at this season, we have two
| bellies Ii town. They young and curious
| Among the children who have been brought to
| the attention of the Society for the Prevention
| of Cruelty two Chinese girls. It
claimed that they had been kidnapped in San
| Francisco two years ago, and were held here
for the purpose of selling them wives to resi-
| dent Ceestials The charge was not proven,
| and for the present at least the case has been
abandoned. The girls a novelty here. AS
i'm other places, the Chinese do not permit their
wives or daughters to be seen on the street
There are several Chinese women in this city,
and when it happened that they have been
brought into court or into the presence of reo-
pie with missionary spirit. they nave said that
thhSX hSX rad rhad pos been out OF the house before for
| one well-autheticated it was little 6Nstsf
| two years since female resident of Mott
street had set her foot outside her tenement. 1t
was not quite so bad in the cases of the girls,
but for weeks at time it has been the habit Of
their guardians to keep them shut up at home.
The .'homs" is near the head of Mott street. in
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manufacture. Cigars made on the first
floor and there is a store there also Up stairs
| is another commercial establishment, and in the
| top stories are tenement. The of
| course small and i-ftted for habtation. In
that respect the heathen girls we'll off as
Thousands of their Christian fellow-beings of the
cast side One of them is dressed in the America
| fashion, and but for the odd wadde that passes
/ for her gait would not be taken for Chinese
| at a distance. The other wears a native
costume. It consists first. in blouse
| that hangs from the the knees, not
| belted caught in any way at the waist
/ Loose trousers are over the legs and bound at
the bottom closely around the ankles. The shoes
are thick soled, wooden affairs familiar the
| foot coverings Of common laundrymen, but they
| are excessively small ana bear witness to the
| cramping of the feet customary with the Chinese
| Both blouse and trousers are of pale blue
| color, unadorned with figures. 1t is the ordinary
| costume of the Chinese of the poorer GLASS. The
| shiny black hair of the girl dressed like an
| American brushed straight back from the
brow and wound into great knot at the back of
| the head The other dressed her hair in the
native style. Over each fat, thin
circular disk of hair that looked as if it might
have been made Of artificial hair and stuck to
the head. All Chinese women learn early how
to do this A gummy pomade is essential to
| the task, but it takes considerable skill to
weave and wind this hair into its thin circulary
| position. So little hair is used in these disks
that enough is left for large coil which is
fastened at the top and back of the head. Neither
of these girls. one ten and the other twelve
years OLD, could speak word of English.
How curious it is that ladies of the most fas-
| Schar cto will ait in a r0w
and laugh at profanity and double meanings on
the stage that would be shocking in their draw
ing rooms Now, there is Maria who will not
let her husbands best friend visit her because
he occasionally swears easy word, but she
will scream with laughter when Actor Stoddard
bulges his eyes, max es mouth like newly
caught Goldfish, and rips out snorting oath.
She will rock with merriment, when old John
Gilbert, stuck up his stills OF legs. gets red
in the face and makes the upper air about him
blue with profanity. You almost expect she
will go home and swear cheeriully herself. |
remember not long ago a play at Wallacks had
some risky language in it. A matron had sat II
out without u blush in company with her chill
dren Next morning at breakfast, Kate, the
terror, began to tell an elder sister, who had
not attended the performance. about the piece.
| The naughty but bright things clung to her
memory and she began repeating them with
my senses y burst out mother. How dare
you say such coarse vulgar thing. I'm
ashamed of you"
II heard it last night" whimpered Kate.
tNever mind if you did-you should know
better than to repeat such horrid things"
Kate looked bewildered. It was beyond her
to understand rule that admitted hearing such
things said in crowded theatre, aud forbade
their repetition in the secluson of her own fam
lily circle
Little Johnny Fresh. aged six. walked into his
mothers lrawingroom before party of guests
having come down from his evenings bath IN HI!
pelt to make some complaint
.'Goodi.ess !" shrieked one, take away tha
child. What dreadful sight
Il amt dreadfuller than him." shouted
back Johnny he pointed to big statue o
Cupid ana got more clothes Look at m,
porous plaster onto my back"
It must be admitted that here aud there maj
understands the nature of woman. Down q
Coney island Photographic tents abound, ant